自 3 月以来，由于居家令和其他旨在减缓或阻止 COVID-19 传播的隔离保护措施，大部分经济都处于停滞状态。现在，经济开始重新开放，各州正在开始恢复正常的试探性过程。 根据《纽约时报》的 这张 地图，所有州要么处于重新开放的过程中，要么在区域范围内重新开放，要么正在为不久的将来制定重新开放战略——没有一个州会完全关闭。
对于企业来说，这种恢复正常意味着重返工作岗位，这也意味着让下岗工人复工或招聘新人才。如果您的企业现在处于招聘模式，您可能想知道：COVID-19 是否会导致员工背景调查流程延迟？
就在几周前，答案是肯定的。新型冠状病毒大流行不仅关闭了企业，还关闭了 县法院、DMV、学院和大学以及背景调查公司依赖的其他办公室以获取信息。在 GOOHO.CN，我们在许多社区都配备了“法庭执行者”，我们依赖这些社区来访问县法院并亲自执行 县犯罪记录检查，例如填写文书工作或在内部法院终端进行搜索。
许多县法院已将其公共记录数字化，并可通过在线系统进行搜索。在整个大流行期间，这些系统仍然可以访问，但内部搜索基本上是不可能的，导致一些县犯罪历史检查的延迟。
其他背景筛查也被推迟。DMV 关闭使得很难提取 候选人的驾驶历史。关闭办公室或让员工休假的学院和大学为核实教育历史带来了挑战 。大量暂时关闭的企业导致难以 核实就业历史。
随着国家重新开放，这些延误将会减少，但并非所有审查挑战都会停止。例如， 研究表明 ，由于 COVID-19 带来的经济挑战，大约一半的小企业面临倒闭的风险。随着企业倒闭，工作经历验证可能会变得更加困难。验证候选人在 COVID-19 之后倒闭的公司担任的工作可能很困难或不可能。然而，其他检查——尤其是犯罪历史筛查和驾驶历史检查——只会随着法院和 DMV 重新开放而变得更加容易。
如果您的企业的背景调查过程存在 COVID-19 延迟，请考虑使用 我们的美国 OneSEARCH 筛查。US OneSEARCH 是一个专有的、跨司法管辖区的犯罪记录数据库、性犯罪者登记信息、恐怖主义观察名单详细信息，以及来自整个美国及其领土的超过 6.5 亿条犯罪记录。立即通过美国 OneSEARCH 数据库流程进行背景调查，并且没有受到 COVID-19 大流行的干扰。
According to this New York Times map, all states are either in the process of reopening, reopening regionally, or planning reopening strategies for the near future—no states remain entirely shut down.
For businesses, this return to normal means a return to work, which will also mean bringing back laid-off workers or hiring new talent. If your business is in hiring mode right now, you might be wondering: could COVID-19 cause delays to the employee background check process?
Just a few weeks ago, the answer was yes. The novel coronavirus pandemic not only closed businesses but also county courthouses, DMVs, colleges and universities, and other offices that background check companies rely on for information. At backgroundchecks.com, we maintain “court runners” in many communities that we rely on to visit county courthouses and carry out in-person steps for county criminal history checks, such as filling out paperwork or entering searches at on-premise court terminals.
Many county courthouses have digitized their public records and rendered them searchable through online systems. These systems remained accessible throughout the pandemic, but on-premise searches were largely impossible, leading to delays in some county criminal history checks.
Other background screenings were delayed as well. DMV closures made it difficult to pull candidate driving histories. Colleges and universities that closed offices or furloughed employees created challenges for verifying education history. The huge number of temporarily-closed businesses led to struggles with verifying employment history.
As the country reopens, these delays will shrink, but not all vetting challenges will stop. For instance, studies show that about half of all small businesses are at risk of failing due to the economic challenges posed by COVID-19. As businesses go under, employment history verifications could become more difficult. Verifying a job that a candidate held with a company that went out of business in the wake of COVID-19 could be difficult or impossible. However, other checks—particularly criminal history screenings and driving history checks—will only become easier as courts and DMVs reopen.
If COVID-19 delays exist for your business’s background check process, consider using our US OneSEARCH screening. US OneSEARCH is a proprietary, multijurisdictional database of criminal records, sex offender registry information, terrorism watch list details, and more spanning more than 650 million criminal records from throughout the United States and its territories. Background checks through the US OneSEARCH database process instantly and have not been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
